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Harvest amounts

I'm curious what have you guys,and gals gotten this year for harvest amounts?
I just finished extracting and got an average of 73.5 Lbs. per hive. A little less than last year but i think pretty good due to the fact I was a little lazy this year and didnt get supers going as soon as I should have.
I hope you all did very well!

I got 22 lbs from one hive. About 2/3 of last year's amount. My other hive went queenless so I left it alone, harvest-wise. After I took the honey from the first one, it, too, lost its queen, and I feel a bit guilty now about robbing them.

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.” -Henry David Thoreau

here in south central kansas I have started harvesting on my lesser hives so I can feed. A fair amount of honey already has been pulled down into the brood nest. I am seeing about 50 percent less than last fall where I averaged about 80lbs a hive. however I wont know until I pull from my strionger hives. the average may go up. We got killed by lots of rain during the flow. A constant cycle of 3 days of rain 2 days of cloudy over cast weather followed by another 3 days of rain.

Honey harvest is secondary to pollination to me, so I really don't "push" it and harvest only once in the season, even when--as in this year--I probably could have harvested three times. I've been beekeeping for six years and I always seem to average about 30 lbs per hive in both good years and bad.